Ginger River Review

Jinghan Zeng on the controversy and reality of Confucius Institutes and China–UK relations

Listen now | Ep. 22 - Memoirs of a Confucius Institute Director

Jan 30 • Jiang Jiang

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How Independent Bookstores in China Are Finding Ways to Survive — and Thrive

Blind-book boxes, revived out-of-print titles, and the quiet power of trust between booksellers and readers.

Jan 16 • Jiang Jiang

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Zhipu CEO Zhang Peng on Taking China’s First LLM Company Public

A wide-ranging conversation on AGI timelines, capital cycles, enterprise AI, and China’s AI competition, originally on the 張小珺Xiaojùn Podcast

Jan 11 • Jiang Jiang

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December 2025

How China’s City Leaders Work

Insights from a decade-long dataset on Party secretaries and mayors

Dec 19, 2025 • Jiang Jiang

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The post-2000 generation in China: A social mentality perspective

An academic look at youth mentality, work, identity, and everyday life

Dec 12, 2025 • Jiang Jiang

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October 2025

Full Text: Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National…

Today’s biggest piece of China news is here.

Oct 28, 2025 • Jiang Jiang

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Guest Essay | Shatter the mirror

By Weijian Shan, Executive Chairman of PAG, a private equity firm, and the book author of Out of the Gobi, Money Games, and Money Machine

Oct 27, 2025 • Jiang Jiang and Weijian Shan

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How far has China come on gender equality? - with Yueping Song

Ep. 21 - Looking back and ahead: What’s changed for gender equality in China since 1995?

Oct 12, 2025 • Jiang Jiang and Yifei Shi

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September 2025

China’s EV Pioneers: What China’s EV revolution looks like through the lens of XPeng’s founder (part 2)

He Xiaopeng on China’s EV future, design and autonomy, and his bet on flying cars

Sep 11, 2025 • Bowen Xiao, Yifei Shi, and Jiang Jiang

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A Japanese student’s “social experiment” across China

Ep. 20 - “What I experienced wasn't just a hitchhiking trip, but a journey through the very fabric of a nation.”

Sep 10, 2025 • Jiang Jiang and Yifei Shi

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China’s EV Pioneers: What China’s EV revolution looks like through the lens of XPeng’s founder (part 1)

He Xiaopeng on ambition, reinvention, and AI-driven cars

Sep 9, 2025 • Jiang Jiang and Bowen Xiao

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August 2025

China’s EV Pioneers: What a four-hour conversation with Li Xiang reveals about China’s EV revolution

How China’s most influential tech leaders think about business, life, and the future

Aug 29, 2025 • Jiang Jiang, Yifei Shi, and Bowen Xiao

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